Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her voice was no longer the fussy one she put on for ticking Léonie off . |
| 2 | They 're making so much noise I think we could be in danger of being moved on for creating a public disturbance . ’ |
| 3 | So that you know things are all spot on for handing books in . |
| 4 | He knew that I had always stopped and got off if there was anything else on the road — and that was back in wartime remember — so he said that with the sort of traffic that 's on the road now I would never be on for getting off ! |
| 5 | When the case was called on for hearing only one justice was available . |
| 6 | The Official Solicitor answered the call of the court within minutes and , although this application only came to the notice of the court officials at 1.30 p.m. it has come on for hearing just before 2 p.m. and now at 2.18 p.m . |
| 7 | The case came on for hearing at the beginning of April 1992 . |
| 8 | As I said to her we 've got two shelves of hardbacks in the alcove because I do think they furnish a room as the man said , but I would n't be on for lending them out because you do n't know the condition they 'd come back in . |
| 9 | well then if I go onto a medium , then you 're getting all this length and all this business here , all that business and it 's too much , if I could of found a four I 'd certainly tried it on for swimming you know , but I do n't want it all baggy and horrible you know |
| 10 | But what a thing to happen so close from home when you 're on for winning the Open ! |
| 11 | Ooh it sparkled when I first got it ooh I would n't put it on for washing up but I forget now |
| 12 | The response to the questionnaire about training has been very satisfactory and it has provided the Training Committee with plenty of information to work on for planning future training programmes . |
| 13 | Shall we put some other shoes on for driving ? |
| 14 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 15 | Come on for crying out loud |
| 16 | ‘ It must be nice living here , ’ I said , changing the subject , ‘ but how d' you go on for shopping ? ’ |
| 17 | If we 'd a carried it on for say this time of the year now you with this erm Whitsun Holiday now , we 'd have had to do it seven days a week , cos you 'd have to be there Saturday and Sunday to stop anything going in there . |
| 18 | She stopped for a moment , and put her shoes back on for walking on the hard tarmac . |
| 19 | No one pretends that the calculation of the multiplier is a scientific operation and no hard-and-fast rule can be laid down for calculating it . |
| 20 | It was not until the end of the 18th century that the first bottle of claret as we now know it was put down for ageing at the famous Chateau Lafite in 1797 . |
| 21 | At the same time there was the dread news that a Simpson divorce case had been set down for hearing at Ipswich , chosen because it could there be more easily hurried on , for 27 October . |
| 22 | However , this is not done where Ord 17 r 11 ( automatic directions ) applies , unless the case had been set down for hearing in the High Court before transfer or a request for a day for hearing to be fixed is made under Ord 17 , r 11(3) ( d ) . |
| 23 | he said he said what he 's gon na do is erm is he 's got his name down for buying a trailer for it as well |
| 24 | Finding things the reverse , at first I had to consciously think switch down for slow down . |
| 25 | AN Ulster school is considering action against its town 's deputy mayor for saying it should be shut down for teaching a new sex education project . |
| 26 | Before the start of harvest , the ewes had been returned to the high moorland pastures to fatten up and build up their strength before coming down for tupping . |
| 27 | As well as penalties laid down for breaking the contract ( perhaps no evenings out for a given period ? ) , there need to be rewards for keeping it , perhaps in the form of a family treat . |
| 28 | Some of these ‘ patterns ’ are formalized in the police manual , so that the procedure is laid down for dealing with rape cases , domestic disputes , medical examinations , road traffic accidents , and so on . |
| 29 | This is reflected in Articles of Government made under the 1986 Act in the procedures laid down for dealing with the exclusion of pupils from school and with the appeals which might arise from exclusion . |
| 30 | At that time there were no instructions laid down for dealing with the radio pirate vessels and , although this particular vessel was outside territorial waters , there was no reason why a cutter should not make reasonable enquiries from vessels in close proximity to our coast . |